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Originally Posted by Niferlou06
Here is the email reply:
Thank you for your well thought out and insightful email. I have not lost sight of what I have come to office to do. I want to reassure you of that first and foremost. Additionally we are having a workshop on January 5th to address the issues of impact fees and what those effects may be on potential revenues to try and lower the burden on the ad valorum tax base. It is critical for us to find additional revenue streams and apply those to once again lower the burden on the ad valorum taxes in Sumter County. Thank you for your interest as I work toward identifying solutions to remedy the situation...Craig
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The Developer, not present residents, should be paying for the infrastructure (all county infrastructure and not just roads) expansion necessitated by the Developer's expansion of The Villages. The County Commission needs to, immediately, contract for an impact-fee study to determine what that amount should be. Upon completion of the study, the Commission needs to increase the Developer's impact fees in the amount determined by the study and reduce the 25% tax hike by the amount of the increased impact-fee revenue.
Simple as that and what the EMS Team promised to do.